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‘AMATEUR HOUR’: Krauthammer slams Obama’s sudden decision to delay Syria strike (UPDATED)

Daily Caller
"Immediately following his statement from the Rose Garden on Saturday, which President Barack Obama said he would delay a strike on Syria until seeking authorization from Congress, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer took to Fox News to slam the president.
"Krauthammer criticized Obama for the way he has handled the unfolding of events surrounding the crisis in Syria.
“' [T]he most astonishing thing is the lack of any urgency,” Krauthammer said. “As you say, Congress will be back in a week. He says, ‘I can strike in a day or a week or a month,’ as if he is a judge handing down a sentence and the execution can be any time in the future. There is a war going on. Do you think everybody is going to hold their breath, hold their arms, step aside until Obama decides when he wants to go to Congress?".... 

UPDATE: Obama seeking political cover by asking for a Congressional vote on Syria intervention   "Syria is already crowing about a victory, and it must be admitted that Obama has lost face throughout the Middle East and the world. As has the United States of America, so long as he occupies the Oval Office. The influence, especially the deterrence the United States is able to exercise has been diminished. Obama's ill-considered red line has already cost the United States dearly.".. 

2 Million Bikers to DC

'Million Muslim March' tries Hijack of '2 Million Bikers to DC' Rally
"While the "Million Muslim March on DC" has fueled a wide range of US reactions, major event organizers for a rival US protest group were treated to a rather remarkable episode of infiltrative subterfuge from both the Million Muslim March group and its stealthy media disciples behind the scenes."
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"[Belinda] Bee may be right, in fact, as she points to the Muslim practice of "Taqiyya", which in shi'ia Islam means to subvert or hide the truth in order to further the aims of Islam."

Please share this information. We must outshine the Muslims!!

 

Jordan – Our Next Ally Sold Out?

Rabid Republican Blog 

"By now most thinking people understand Obama’s game. He’s squarely on the side of [or in the midst of] the Muslim Brotherhood.  One-by-one the countries of the Middle East are being taken down,  essentially handed over intact – to the MB.

"Israel – “the illegal occupiers” – is slowly being surrounded. Jordan is needed for this conquest,  and Abdullah will not go along.  Watch the news America – and observe how it plays out."

Still wearing that Hannah Montana swag?

Reading list on Obama's Syrian conundrum

Syria Red Line  ...."Anyway, It looks like Assad has jumped the Red Line. Now we have to respond or lose credibility and, according to the polls, the American people have no stomach for another war."

 

Commentary Mag; About That Special Relationship  "Some are fretting about whether the special relationship that has bound the United States and the United Kingdom since World War II has been damaged by the House of Common’s vote against British participation in Syria and Prime Minister’s David Cameron’s decision to accept the Commons’ verdict. The New York Times’ Roger Cohen, who has been writing from the UK for some time now, says in his column today that “Britain’s decision not to stand with the United States, its closest ally, in possible military action to punish the Syrian regime for a deadly chemical weapons attack marks a watershed moment that leaves the ‘special relationship’ in search of meaning and Britain in search of its role in the world.”
Obama should have kept that bust of Winston Churchill.

Caroline Glick; Obama's bread and circuses  ...."The most important of those questions are: What US interests are at stake in Syria? How should the US go about advancing them? What does Syria's use of chemical weapons means for the US's position in the region? How would the planned US military action in Syria impact US deterrent strength, national interests and credibility regionally and worldwide? Syria is not an easy case. Thirty months into the war there, it is clear that the good guys, such as they are, are not in a position to win."

Jennifer Rubin; 10 things you need to know about Kerry’s remarks
"Secretary of State John Kerry just delivered a compelling case for military action against
Iraq Syria. Here is what you need to know:"....
Reason number eight was my personal favorite:

On a personal level this is tremendous vindication for the Bush administration and those who were vilified. It turns out unilateral action based on a combination of humanitarian and strategic based on intelligence about WMD use is justified. That said, the difference may be that George W Bush did something about it and Kerry’s boss, who won’t come out of the witness-protection program, isn’t likely to remove Bashar al-Assad in the way Bush took out Sadaam Hussein.

From Germany; Humanitarian Aid Is Possible

"It is most unfortunate that Obama has pushed himself into a corner with his talk of a “red line.” Getting himself out of this situation will come with heavy consequences: He will be publicly portrayed as a toothless tiger."

 

Assad may hit back at Israel for US strike, trusting Obama to tie Israel’s hands against major reprisal 

 “Anything that happens in this area is in Israel’s interest. Such aggression will first of all benefit Israel, secondly, the military efforts of Al Nusra, al Qaeda’s armed group in Syria. “So the Americans would be serving Israel first and Al Qaeda second.”

Mark Steyn; Perfunctory and ineffectual war-making in Syria is worse than nothing.
I see the Obama “reset” is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything like the dictator who gassed his own people that the discredited warmonger Bush spent 2002 and early 2003 staggering ever more punchily around the country inveighing against. The 2003 dictator who gassed his own people was the leader of the Baath Party of Iraq. The 2013 dictator who gassed his own people is the leader of the Baath Party of Syria. Whole other ball of wax.

Shamed into War

Charles Krauthammer

 If Obama is going to strike Syria, he should do it constitutionally and with purpose.

"Having leaked to the world, and thus to Syrian president Bashar Assad, a detailed briefing of the coming U.S. air attack on Syria — (1) the source (offshore warships and perhaps a bomber or two), (2) the weapon (cruise missiles), (3) the duration (two or three days), (4) the purpose (punishment, not “regime change”) — perhaps we should be publishing the exact time the bombs will fall, lest we disrupt dinner in Damascus.

"So much for the element of surprise. Into his third year of dithering, two years after declaring Assad had to go, one year after drawing — then erasing — his own red line on chemical weapons, Barack Obama has been stirred to action." 

The Pros and Cons of Attacking Syria  "PJ Media's columnists weigh in on intervening in Syria as the Obama administration decides how to respond to the use of chemical weapons. Updated: Michael Ledeen, Victor Davis Hanson and Roger Kimball provide their analyses."

It’s pointless to take potshots at Obama for failing to act on Syria. What we should say is this: “Iran is the main source of instability in the Middle East. Iran’s intervention in Syria has turned the country into a slaughterhouse. By showing weakness to Iran, the Obama administration encourages its murderous activities elsewhere in the region.”

Obama Perpetuates Racial Dissonance

Intellectual Conservative  "What bothers me more than anything is that people who don't know any more than I do, feel they have a right to protest so-called injustice through looting, vandalism and violence as revenge directed toward the innocent."

Big Hollywood on Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus' Sexual Act a Far Cry from Days When Music Mattered
"And I will still offer that, based on the VMAs, with the exception of a few outcroppings of talent, the lunar landscape of quality music is pretty barren. Music as a pop art expression has been replaced with prancing divas, thug rappers, coiffed boy bands or barely legal teen angels whose sexual aggression make this father of an adolescent girl cringe.

Miley Cyrus Grabs Crotch Anew for Promotional Photos    ...."The 20-year-old, who has taken to copying Madonna and Rihanna's favoured crotch grabbing move, tries her hand at it again in one shot, where she makes the lewd gesture in a pair of  PVC black and white checked trousers and a white crop top, in front of a neon Bangerz sign. "

"Cyrus exposes part of her behind in another photograph and flashes her thong underwear in another."

Camille Paglia: Miley Cyrus 'Cringingly Unsexy'  "Critic Camille Paglia says the problem with Miley Cyrus' performance at Sunday's VMAs wasn't that it was “Disgusting!” “Raunchy!” Desperate!” as some reviews would have it. The real concert is that the untalented Cyrus doesn’t understand that sexual eroticism without limits that make that eroticism titillating is pointless."

Obama's rhetoric comes up short compared to past presidents

Ed Lasky  "When a President wants to put adversaries on notice, he and his team members should not preemptively tip their hands or display their weakness.
"The Obama administration does both (as well as reveal our secrets and plans) time and time again.
"What a great commander-in-chief."

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/08/branco-cartoon-red-face/

Nation’s only black Senator not invited to speak at March on Washington

Red Alert Politics    "Noticeably absent from the speaker line-up at the Let Freedom Ring event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington today: the nation’s only black Senator, Tim Scott.  .... was not invited to participate in the historic event, a spokesperson for the Senator confirmed to Red Alert Politics in an email.
"African-American leaders who did receive an invitation to speak at included Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) – who participated in the original March – Martin Luther King III, MSNBC host Al Sharpton and movie stars Jamie Foxx, Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker.
Update: Talking Points Memo is reporting that a source involved in planning the March on Washington says Scott wasn’t invited because he declined to attend the event as a spectator.

 

The Good: Health Care Premiums Will Drop or Stay Same Under Obamacare – The Bad: If You Make Less Than $20K Per Year…

Weasel Zippers  "Apparently the only way to benefit from Obamacare is to live near the poverty line."
Via National Journal:

Whether the quality of care in the new market is comparable to private offerings remains to be seen. But one thing is clear: The cost of care in the new market doesn’t stack up. A single wage earner must make less than $20,000 to see his or her current premiums drop or stay the same under Obamacare, an independent review by National Journal found. That’s equivalent to approximately 34 percent of all single workers in the U.S. seeing any benefit in the new system. For those seeking family-of-four coverage under the ACA, about 43 percent will see cost savings. Families must earn less than or equal to $62,300, or they, too, will be looking at a bigger bill.